Magnitude 4.4 Earthquake Rattles Southeastern U.S. In Early Morning Hours

Wednesday, 12 December 2018Before the sun rose Wednesday, some residents of eastern Tennessee got a wake-up call. But it wasn't a friend or partner shaking them awake, it was the very ground beneath their beds, National Public Radio reports. A magnitude 4.4 earthquake struck at around 4:14 a.m. ET near Decatur, Tenn., about 150 miles southeast of Nashville. But Tennessee residents weren't the only ones to feel the temblor. More than 7,700 people (so far) have reported experiencing it, from Kentucky and northern Alabama to the western Carolinas. The earthquake even made its presence felt in Atlanta. "A lot of people were rattled awake — literally," Amy Vaughan, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey, tells NPR....

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